US airline stocks rise on hopes for a travel rebound
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US airline stocks rose Monday after a number of carriers reported strong demand for seats from leisure travelers.
Speaking at an investor conference held Monday by JPMorgan, executives from American Airlines, United, Delta and JetBlue all reported strong bookings going into the traditional spring-break period, and several said they're also selling a growing number of tickets into the summer. "The last three weeks have been the best three weeks since the pandemic hit," American CEO Doug Parker said regarding advanced ticket sales. "We're getting very close to 2019 levels in total bookings."Over and over at a confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Democratic senators confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about controversial comments they said he had made in the past. And over and over, President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of health and human services either denied having said those things or said he wasn’t sure he had said them.
Investigators are intensifying their search into what caused the collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army Black Hawk helicopter, with recovery crews still working to pull wreckage from the Potomac River and initial concerns already raised about the path of at least one of the aircraft.